Improvement in lathes for turning metal



C{F.PUTNAM.

Lathes for Turning Metal.

No. 133,483. Patented .Nov.26,18 72.

Mi tnesses, Inventor,

A-md $3 M UNITED STATES PATENT Grrron.

CHARLES F. PUTNAM, OF FITCHBURG, MASSACHUSETTS ADMINISTRATOR OF ESTATE OF SALMON W. PUTNAM, DECEASED.

IMPROVEMENT IN LATHES FOR TURNING METAL.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 133,483, dated November 26, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that SALMON W. PUTNAM, of Fitchburg, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, has invented an 1mprovement in Lathes; and I do hereby declare that the following, taken in connection with the drawing which accompanies and forms part of this specification, is a description of the invention sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to practice it.

The invention relates to the construction of the beds of metal lathes', or machines in which there is a long bed upon which a sliding tailstock is supported and moves.

In this invention the rear side of the sliding tailstock is made with a shelf for receiving and carrying tools; and the invention consists i1111 mfaking this tail-stock with a tool-holding s e] The drawing represents a lathe-bed and tailstock embodying the invention.

A shows a plan of the bed and tail-stock; B, an elevation showing the tail stock in section. a denotes the bed; I) b, the ways upon which the tail-stock 0 slides. The tail-stock is made with two rear extensions or uprights, d, and between these uprights is the shelf 0, said shelf extending across and filling the space between the uprights at the bottom of the stock, and having a guard-piece, f, at its end; the shelf, guard-piece, uprights, and stock constituting a box or receptacle for receiving various tools desirable to have about the lathe and to accompany the tail-stock in its movements. This provision for holding tools adds comparatively nothing to the ex-. pense of construction, and the shelf is a very convenient appendage to a lathe.

I claim- 7 The tail-stock 0 made with the tool-holdin g shelf 6, substantially as shown and described.

CHARLES F. PUTNAM,

Administrator of the Estate of S. W. PUTNAM.

Witnesses:

S. W. P TNAM, J r., HENRY O. PUTNAM. 

